Use a CommandField to customize the appearance of the Edit, Delete, Update, Cancel, and Select buttons : CommandField « Data Binding « ASP.NET Tutorial






<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
    <title>Show CommandField</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>

    <asp:GridView
        id="grdProducts"
        DataSourceID="srcProducts"
        DataKeyNames="Id"
        AutoGenerateColumns="false"
        Runat="server">
        <Columns>
        <asp:CommandField
            ButtonType="Image"
            ShowEditButton="true"
            EditText="Edit Product"
            UpdateText="Update Product"
            ShowCancelButton="true"
            CancelText="Cancel Edit"
            ShowDeleteButton="true"
            DeleteText="Delete Product"/>
        <asp:BoundField
            DataField="Title"
            HeaderText="Product Title" />
        <asp:BoundField
            DataField="Director"
            HeaderText="Product Director" />
        </Columns>
    </asp:GridView>

    <asp:SqlDataSource
        id="srcProducts"
        ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:Products %>"
        SelectCommand="SELECT Id,Title,Director FROM Products"
        UpdateCommand="UPDATE Products SET Title=@Title, 
                                         Director=@Director
                                         WHERE Id=@Id" 
        DeleteCommand="DELETE Products WHERE Id=@Id"
        Runat="server" />

    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
File: Web.config

<configuration>
  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="Products" 
         connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;
         AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|MyDatabase.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True" />
  </connectionStrings>
</configuration>








19.6.CommandField
19.6.1.Use a CommandField to customize the appearance of the Edit, Delete, Update, Cancel, and Select buttons
19.6.2.Adding edit functionality using a CommandField control